The Needle is an odd name for a periodical on the printing arts, but the publishers evidently had a really good point to make, as thei...

Letterology is on Fall break again this week as I am preparing for the opening of the  Camp Stories, Illustrated  exhibit at the  University...

It was on Labor Day, September 2nd, 1957, fifty-six years ago today, George Giusti's celebrated cover design for  Holiday  magazine ...

Cover designs for the monthly travel magazine  The Sea ,   published in Japan for the shippi...

In my earlier research on the late 19th C horticulturist John Lewis Childs (1856-1921), I came across a few of his illustrated bookpla...

Nothing says May Day more than some fine hand-lettered mastheads from The Mayflower  magazine. (Guess it is time to dust the snow off th...